Borer may refer to:

Insects

  • Common furniture beetle, also known as the common house borer
  • Shoot borer
  • Stemborer
  • Twig borer

Moths

  • Chilo (moth)
  • Southwestern corn borer
  • Ash borer, or lilac borer
  • Squash vine borer, a pest of cucurbit vines
  • Ostrinia, pests of maize and other plants

Beetles

  • Banana root borer, a true weevil
  • Ptinidae, a family of beetles, especially:
  • Common house borer
  • Woodboring beetle

Devices

  • Cork borer, a tool of the chemistry laboratory
  • Raise borer, a mining machine
  • Instep borer, an instrument of torture
  • Tunnel boring machine
  • Reamer, a rotary cutting tool used in metalworking
  • Drill

Other uses

  • Borer Lake, United States
  • , several ships
  • בורר ("borer"), Sorting/Purification activities prohibited in Jewish law on Shabbat

See also

  • Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer, a fictional mammal